America's MANUFACTURED Teacher Shortage | Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar

James Li has been, by far, my favorite addition to Breaking Points.

Sadly true. Many states create so many unnecessary economic and educational barriers to becoming a teacher. Even people with Masters Degrees cannot teach their subjects in schools despite many years experience successfully doing so in other states. This teacher shortage is self-inflicted. And yes, teachers need to be paid a living wage everywhere, because no one deserves to go broke…especially the fully employed.

Administrative bloat is a huge problem in healthcare too. Bad for nurses, bad for patients but good for pencil pushers and shareholders.

As a teacher myself, I greatly appreciate your coverage of this important matter. My high school building is literally running out of rooms because of all of the newly hired administrators who need offices. They convert the classrooms into offices and force the teachers to stack up on top of each other because there is no instructional space left. These administrators look busy, but those of us in the trenches can't figure out what they actually do. A cynical person might attribute this to prioritizing paperwork over what is supposed to be the objective: teaching kids.

This exact same thing is happening in Canadian hospitals - the administrators are more than happy to sacrifice patient safety and care in order to preserve their own jobs. Administrative bloat is a huge problem.

This dude is truly top notch. Keep James around BP 💯

As a teacher, I can tell you that there is no shortage of certified, highly-qualified teachers. Highly-qualified, certified teacher have decided to leave the profession. They are going back to school or have chosen different careers. Our superintendent is not pleased and held a principals meeting about the shortage in our district. It’s gotten worse. School started on 8/22, and teachers have already resigned. Most said it’s because of administrators and student behavior. What was once a dream job has turned into a nightmare.

Stop giving the big money to Administrators. Remember we don’t need more Admins, we need well paid teachers.

I love this reporting! He was completely unbiased. Breath of fresh air.

This is happening right now. I'm a high school teacher and see the tutoring and the administrator pool getting bigger every year. What he failed to mention is the real critical eye that administrators level at teachers in their schools. It's very difficult to feel valued unless you teach one of the advanced or stem classes. I'm retiring at the end of this year, and feel sad for my students, who are less prepared for life than their peers 10 years ago.